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...Princeton the R. O. T. C., under Major Sargent, who expects to leave soon for France, assisted by Lieutenant De Fourmestraux, one of the French officers who recently paid a visit to the University, is preparing for renewed activity. Not only in the regular corps are men being trained, but a class of more than 150 Y. M. C. A. workers will enter the University on March 21 to receive special instruction before they leave for Europe...
Lieutenant De Fourmestraux, of the French Army, visited the University on Wednesday, before proceeding on his journey to Princeton, where he will take command of the advanced training of the R. O. T. C. unit. "I am very pleasantly impressed with what little I have seen of the Harvard Corps," he said, when interviewed by a CRIMSON reporter. "I am sorry that I can not stay longer, but I shall return again to visit in the spring. I have heard much about the Harvard Training Corps while in France, and am anxious to see the men at drill...
Lieutenant De Fourmestraux has been detailed by the French Government for work in connection with the Reserve Officers' Training Corps in this country, and is at present assigned to duty with the Princeton regiment. He has been a member of the 117th Infantry, from Lemans, a regiment which has distinguished itself many times during the war. While attending the lecture on "Airplane Photography," given by Lieutenant Morize at the New Lecture Hall on Wednesday afternoon, he remarked that he had fought over the ground portrayed by the aviation pictures during the battle of Le Roie...
While in the service abroad, Lieutenant De Fourmestraux fought for a time in the same regiment with Captain Paul Amann, who was detailed at the University with the Iron Battalion and with the University R. O. T. C. in the early part of last fall. He is also an intimate friend of Lieutenant Jean Giraudoux, the grenadier officer of the French Mission at the University last summer, with whom he was associated in the Aviation Office in France...
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